This, according to him, would douse the tension the  cabinet reshuffle has caused especially among the present serving ministers.

Alhaji Ahmed who spoke through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Yussuf Addy, in Abuja yesterday during an exclusive chat with Vanguard said, “as I speak to you  now, all consultations have  been finalised and the list is  ready with Mr. President. 

From the instructions given  to this office from the Presidency, and on good authority, all things being equal, it is certain that the Ministerial  list will be submitted this week  to the Senate for ratification."

Explaining why the list was being delayed, he said, there have  been serious and incriminating security reports on some of the nominees and that  President Yar’Adua took  enough time to personally  scrutinize and ascertain the qualities of all the nominees, adding that the list could  have gone to the Senate last week but Mr. President has to shift it with that of the Ambassadorial list to give him time to clarify on the negative reports against some nominees.

The expected changes as appended on the list, he added, are actually not in  large scale contrary to expectations as the president maintained he is comfortable with some of the ministers.

"President Yar’Adua is one  man who would not want his ministerial list to be scuffled or rejected at the Senate, so he has to personally give his  assertions and clean bills on each of them before sending  it so that, all those sent will scale through the Senate screening”, he said.

In a related development, the Secretary  to the Federal Government , Alhaji Yayale  Ahmed    reassured Nigerians  of his commitment  to serve  with  honesty and transparency to the  benefit of all Nigerians, without  preference to tribe or state .

He urged all Civil Savants to redouble their effort in the conceptualization  and implementations  of governments programmes and projects .

Speaking at the inauguration of the steering committee  for  Quick Wins  NDGs  Project  in Abuja, Alhaji  Yayale  stated  "rather than become a  tribal stock, I will be fair to all Nigerians. However, there is  need for collaborations with relevant agencies to fast-tract the realization of  the Millennium  Development Goals  projects  of this administrations, especially in the areas like Health, Education, Agriculture and water sector", Yayale  stated.

Giving further remarks , The SGF maintained that the  ‘ QUICKWIN ’ Project  will be funded  from  the debt relieve gains  and will spread   over 40,000 locations  across  the Senatorial and Federal Constituencies  in the country within the overview  on public expenditure on NEEDS framework.

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